Time travel suspension railway

Time travel suspension railway is the title of a compilation of 5 partial routes of a city tour in Wuppertal . The individual routes to the industrial age in the urban area of Wuppertal were presented to the public in 2006.

The routes were worked out between 2002 and 2006, the textile route in Wuppertal , which was first developed and does not directly belong to the circle of threads, colors, water, steam , can be seen as a pilot project of the history workshop. This and the time travel suspension railway route were created in the course of the Regionale 2006 , for which a number of thematic industrial routes were developed in the region. Some of the walking routes of threads, paints, water and steam have the same stations as “Textile in Wuppertal” and “Zeitreise Schwebebahn”, but they add to larger routes.

Route 1: Zoo / Stadium: Villa district at the zoo

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more pictures	Suspension station zoo / stadium (1)	In 1901, when only a few villas at the zoo were finished, the suspension railway between Vohwinkel and Elberfeld started operating. The villa district, planned by the architects Kuno Riemann and Rudolf Hermanns , was built in the 1890s. The convenient location made the site an attractive building site.
more pictures	Stadium at the Zoo (2)	The stadium, which was built in 1924 and has been a listed building since 1983, was the only one that had a cycling track in addition to a football field and running track. The entrance buildings, the grandstand wall along Sonnborner Strasse and a section of the cycling track have been preserved from the original facility.
more pictures	Restoration building of the zoological garden (3)	The building, designed by Rudolf Hermanns and Kuno Riemann, was built in several construction phases between 1881 and 1891. It offered space for up to 2000 people, was one of the most important ballrooms in the city and in the first few years the actual main attraction of the zoological garden.
more pictures	Villa Grüneck (4)	The home of the architect Kuno Riemann at the junction of Herthastraße and Selmaweg was the first completed residential building in the zoo in 1895. From here there was an unobstructed view of the zoo grounds. A spacious leisure and kitchen garden was created behind the house.
more pictures	Line of sight (5)	The Walkürenallee, called Siegesallee at the time, was laid out by the architects of the district Rudolf Hermanns and Kuno Riemann as the central visual axis between the zoo and the Zoo station on the railway line to Düsseldorf. Almost all visitors to the zoo took this route before the suspension railway was built. In the absence of street lighting, the avenue was brightly lit with lanterns during evening festivities in the zoo restaurant.
more pictures	Zoological Garden Station (6)	With the establishment of the zoo and planning of the villa district, it became necessary to build a train station on the railway line, which had been completed in 1841. The rural-looking reception building lost its function in the mid-1970s. In 1989 it was restored in the old style and has been used for gastronomy ever since.
more pictures	Bayer Company (7)	In 1863 Friedrich Bayer and Friedrich Weskott founded a chemical paint factory in Heckinghausen , which they relocated to West Elberfeld in 1867. Ever since Bayer had a main scientific laboratory conducting research with tar products in 1891, Elberfeld has developed into a pioneering location for pharmaceutical research.
more pictures	Suspension railway station Varresbecker Straße (8)	The suspension railway station Varresbeck is located at the foot of the Tiergarten stairs. Here you could go into the air in 1899 on the test route between Varresbeck and the zoo.

Route 2: Pestalozzistraße workers and manufacturers

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more pictures	Pestalozzistraße suspension railway station (1)	The station is in the middle of the first industrial area in Elberfeld outside the center. On the northern side of Wuppertal, on a boulevard (today: Friedrich-Ebert-Straße ), important Elberfeld companies and manufacturers' villas were built. To the south of the Wupper, on the Arrenberg , were factories and workers' quarters.
more pictures	Empress Augusta pen (2)	The foundation of the city of Elberfeld was established between 1891 and 1895 on Sedanstrasse (today: Gutenbergstrasse 57). Old, single women from working-class circles found accommodation, food and supplies here. The representative house was an exemplary facility with separate rooms and a garden.
more pictures	Helios Clinic Wuppertal (3)	The "hospital and madhouse" opened in 1863 on the Arrenberg was one of the oldest municipal hospitals in Prussia. The clinic, which was continuously expanded in the following years and later named after the surgeon Ferdinand Sauerbruch , who was born in Barmen , is now one of two locations of the Helios Clinic in Wuppertal.
more pictures	Company Ferdinand Esser & Co. (4)	The company, founded in 1857, moved to Königstraße (today: Friedrich-Ebert-Straße) in 1871 and developed into the most important export company for iron and steel products in Wuppertal with worldwide trade relations. The first commercial building and other factory buildings have been preserved to this day.
more pictures	Friedrich Bayer Junior House (5)	Around 1889, Friedrich Bayer junior , the successor to one of the founders of the Bayer textile paint factory, acquired two bourgeois houses at Königstrasse 146/148. However, the family did not show their wealth and influence on the street, but built a castle-like extension with a park. From the front, the Remise (1907) on the opposite side of the street in Bergisch style looked almost more magnificent (6).
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more pictures	Haulage business Mörth (7)	Emil Mörth ran his haulage business in the building on Königstrasse, which was erected in 1897. The wagons were parked in the “English stable” below, while a ramp led to the horse stalls on the upper two floors. One of the first large garages with a gas station was built here in the 1920s.
more pictures	Küpper Brewery / Himmelmann-Pothmann Wine Shop (8)	In 1845 Johann C. Küpper built a brewery on Königstraße. The storage cellars built into the rock were soon supplemented by a huge cooling building. After the merger with the Wicküler brewery and the move to Unterbarmen , the large Himmelmann-Pothmann wine shop took over the building.

Route 3: Döppersberg: The railway

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more pictures	Döppersberg suspension railway station (1)	When the Art Nouveau station building at Elberfeld's central traffic junction was no longer efficient enough, the Elberfeld architect CJ Mangner designed the station in the functional style of the 1920s in 1926. It was part of a comprehensive planned redesign of the Döppersberg area. Go through the underpass towards the main train station. The representative building on the right is the Elberfeld Railway Directorate.
more pictures	Elberfeld Railway Directorate (2)	The tremendous economic boom of the 1870s also hit the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahngesellschaft . From 1871 to 1875 she had a representative new office building built in neoclassicism. The extensions to the west were built in 1914–1916 and 1936–1938.
more pictures	Elberfeld Central Station (3)	The station, completed in 1849, connected the eastern line to Dortmund with the western line to Düsseldorf . It is one of the oldest train stations in the Rhineland. Since it was also the seat of the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahngesellschaft, it was built in a very representative manner in the classical style.
more pictures	Railway workshop Kluse (4)	The brick building was built in 1847 as the second Elberfeld train station. From here, on October 9, 1847, the first train to Schwelm left. With the opening of the main train station on Döppersberg in 1849, it was converted into a coke shed for many years, which presumably saved it from demolition.
more pictures	Kluse suspension railway station (5)	When the city center of Elberfeld was no longer accessible by trams at the beginning of the 1980s, the two suspension railway stations that were not rebuilt after the Second World War were needed again. For this reason, the "Ohligsmühle" (formerly: "Alexanderbrücke") station was reopened on September 4, 1982 . The second new station was still more than 16 years long in coming: It was not until March 26, 1999 that the “Kluse / Schauspielhaus” station opened. This means that all 20 original stations exist again.

Route 4: Völklinger Str .: work and prayer

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more pictures	Völklinger Straße suspension railway station (1)	The suspension railway station built in 1903 in the heart of Unterbarmen is in the vicinity of the "Allee". A unique industrial area stretches along this former boulevard: factories, town houses and workers' quarters were built on the Wupperwiesen meadows, which have been used for bleaching yarn since the Middle Ages. The longer detour to the Unterbarmen cemetery is worthwhile. Cross Friedrich-Engels-Allee and then turn right to Oberbergische Straße. This leads as a staircase over the tracks and on to the street "Am Unterbarmer Friedhof".
more pictures	Unterbarmen Cemetery (2)	The cemetery, inaugurated in 1822, is one of the largest in Wuppertal. The oldest, lower part reflects the simple, strictly Calvinist self-image of the first generation of manufacturers, while the lavishly designed graves behind it reflect the need for representation of the next generation of entrepreneurs.
more pictures	Grain mill (3)	In today's restaurant you can still see the water wheel of the former mill with a diameter of seven meters. The first mill on the artificial island (bulwark) was mentioned in 1682. In 1838 a paint mill was built here, which was finally converted into a grain mill in 1846.
more pictures	Unterbarmer Main Church (4)	In 1822 Reformed and Lutherans founded the first United Evangelical Church in Wuppertal in Unterbarmen. In 1827 the Frankfurt cathedral builder and architect H. Hübsch was commissioned to build the church, which was consecrated in 1832, destroyed in the war in 1943 and rebuilt in 1952.
more pictures	Julius Koebner Chapel (5)	The chapel of the Wuppertal Baptist Congregation has stood on Wartburgstrasse since 1856. The community founder Julius Köbner , son of a Jewish businessman, lived in Wuppertal from 1852 to 1865 and from 1879 to 1883. He financed the construction of the chapel with donations that he collected from congregations in the USA.
more pictures	Korzert Peninsula (6)	Korzert was the name of the peninsula on the Loh (Wuppertal) between Wupper and the old mill ditch . In addition to suppliers for vehicle construction, important machine factories were located here.

Route 5: Old Market: Sedansberg working-class district

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more pictures	Alter Markt suspension railway station (1)	The old market was the historical center of the city of Barmen . The first town hall stood here in 1728. The station that went into operation in 1903 was therefore also called the “Rathausbrücke”. Demolished in the 1960s, it was replaced in 1967 by the current station, which hangs with steel cables from two 38 m high pylons.
more pictures	Railway viaduct on Steinweg (2)	Two railway lines running parallel to the valley axis have crossed Wuppertal since the 1870s. The brick viaduct in the center of Barmens belongs to the northern "Rhenish route". It was elaborately designed with pilasters and an arched frieze.
more pictures	Münzstrasse residential courtyard (3)	Between 1919 and 1931, the town of Barmen, which was independent until 1929, built several complexes with small apartments for working-class families on the Sedansberg . All apartments should be adequately sunlit and ventilated. The architecture takes on forms of the " Bergisch Baroque " and classicism.
more pictures	Barmer Construction Company for Workers' Housing (4)	The first settlement of the construction company founded by industrialists was built on the Wichelhausberg in 1872 . The simple two-family semi-detached houses had 300–500 square meters of land to enable partial self-sufficiency. They were offered to skilled workers in the hire purchase system.
more pictures	Consumer cooperative "Forward" (5)	From 1899 workers from Barmer organized themselves here who could no longer afford the overpriced goods of the retailers. In 1904 the site on Münzstrasse was acquired, and a little later the “Kontorhaus” was built here. In 1909 the cooperative already had 11,000 members and 200 employees.
more pictures	Indoor swimming pool Kleine Flurstrasse (6)	The first public “bathing establishment” of Barmens, built in 1882, was equipped with indoor, tub, shower and even a luxurious “Irish-Roman” bath. With the raised central building, side aisles and semicircular apse, the architecture is reminiscent of Roman basilicas.
more pictures	First Barmer Hospital (7)	In 1841 the city of Barmen opened its first hospital on the Kleiner Werth. Although the capacity was increased from 24 to 320 beds with several extensions and new buildings, the institution soon no longer met the requirements and was replaced by the municipal hospitals built in 1904–1911.
more pictures	Werther Brücke suspension railway station (8)	The Werther Bridge was the only one of three suspension railway stations built in Art Nouveau style. After war damage, it was extensively restored in 1984. The station was built on the model of elevated railway stations in Berlin and Paris, which rose above trestle-like support structures.